Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Challenge [Defense Against the Dark Arts] – paper; environment; truth; writing; article; department; goal
Expectations
He had always been laughed at all through his years at Hogwarts. He was a Ravenclaw, he had always relied on his books for whatever he needed to know because the people who wrote the books obviously knew what they were talking about and had experience. Why should he risk himself in a risky environment just to test how a specific spell worked on some dangerous animal? The evidence was usually on paper so he had no need for such stupidity. That was left to the foolish Gryffindors.
He was one of the people who did the writing based on whatever the foolish person who wanted to test the theory. That was his department, his freedom was within the thick tombs and stacks of parchment that held truth within them.
That had been until he had gotten tired of the constant mocking he experienced from his peers and even from people who had never met him before and had only heard of him. He had left his teaching post at Hogwarts for a year, his excuse being that he wanted more practical experience in study.
His real goal though had been to find the Dark Lord. There had been rumours of his spirit wandering around the forests of Albania and so that has been where he had started his search. When he found the Dark Lord, he would never be mocked or teased again because the Dark Lord would give him power beyond that of the other weak witches and wizards that were his peers.
He had never expected what had truly come to pass.